How to Successfully Select and Team with a Recruiter
July 18th, 2019Deciding to work with a recruiter to find employment for yourself can be difficult. Professional Alternatives is here to share how to successfully move forward with this process. The key is to find someone who is a fit to your career niche. The more they understand you, the more helpful a recruiter can be in landing your dream job. Our 5 recruiting teams focus in lending services, credit and risk, financial services, support services and professional services.
What Recruiters Should Be Asking You
They should ask you about who you are and what type of company culture you want to represent in the beginning of the process. To make the correct candidate/recruiter match is key to helping our recruiters really find the best fit for you at a career stand point.
Questions to Ask the Recruiter at Your First Meeting
- How long have you been recruiting?
- What is your recruiting niche?
- Who pays your fee? (It should be the hiring company)
- Can you share some of the employers that you work with?
- How many candidates have you place in jobs have you placed in the last year?
Recruiter Follow-Up after Moving Forward with Partnership
Make sure that your recruiter has all forms of contact information to reach you. Being readily available to your recruiter is crucial to this relationship. At any time a hiring employer could speak to your recruiter and need to know an answer about you for a potential job position. Depending on your time line of when you need a job, this will rely on how much your recruiter will need to be following up with you. Their job is to keep you in the loop at all times during this process. Our recruiters at Professional Alternatives main goal is to have a clear, honest and upfront relationship through this process.
Confirm Your Preparation Plan
Make sure to confirm your arrangement with your recruiter via email and phone call. Be upfront and honest from the beginning and give them any information that would be of importance. An example of what to reveal would be any companies that you would NOT work for. Along with companies that you would REALLY want to work for. Any past job issues, or accomplishments. They are not here to judge your career past, they are here to learn from it and place you in the best job role in the future.
Your Job Search Before Teaming with the Recruiting Firm
The recruiter you’re working with should ask you about your current job search and where you are at in it. Always let the recruiter know if you’ve received a job offer that you haven’t accepted yet, and also any jobs you have applied to before partnering with the recruiter’s agency.
When You Have Your First Interview
Partner with your recruiter and REASEARCH the company you’re interviewing with. Make sure that you have received all of the names and proper titles of who you are interviewing with at the company. Also, listen to your recruiter when they tell you how to prepare for the interview, and ask what questions may be asked by the interviewer to be fully prepared.
Confirm Compensation If/When Hired
Discuss in detail what the compensation for the hired position is. Confirm this agreement through email with your recruiter throughout the process. Then gather the assurance from your recruiter what benefits will be attained from the company.
If you were comfortable with the response and the interaction throughout this entire process, and you and the recruiter have developed a professional relationship. Then you have successfully picked the right recruiter and staffing firm to team with in your career journey!
Are you in need of a recruiter currently? Please reach out to our office at 713-572-2100 or email us at resumes@proalt.com. We would be honored to help you with your professional search!